Sitemap

[Digikala]

Hi,

I have generated a dynamic sitemap and submit it in search console, but there is a huge gap between the number of submitted pages and the number of indexed pages.

143,206 URLs submitted 2,151 URLs indexedwhy we have this gap and what should I do to reduce it?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Hamid,

If your site is relatively new or you've only just added your sitemap to Google Search Console then it will take a while for you'll see this number go up. What you can do though is check our your Crawl Stats in Google Search Console. There you can find out how many pages Google is currently crawling daily on your site. If this number is very low, then you need to find ways to get more authority to your pages so Google will find it worthwhile to index these pages as well. You have a limited crawl budget and if that's relatively low then it could take a while before Google will index all these pages as they just haven't found them before you submitted the sitemap.

Martijn.

[Mustansar]

Submitted pages are those pages we've submitted to Google from the Sitemap on your website.  Indexed pages are those pages Google finds by spidering or crawling  your website naturally.  It is not uncommon for your Indexed pages to be lower than your Submitted pages.  Yes, ideally want your Indexed pages to be just as much as the Submittedpages.  The tricky part is knowing which pages are not indexed!

However, there are things you can do to improve these Indexed pages, namely:

1. Getting more websites to link to the pages in your website.
2. Adding unique content to all the pages in your site and modifying the all important SEO tags.